Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer (born
December 22,
1945) is a
television journalist. Sawyer was born and raised in
Glasgow, Kentucky, and received her journalism degree at
Wellesley College in
1967. She then served as a reporter for WLKY-TV in
Louisville, Kentucky, until 1970. She was then hired by Presidential Press Secretary
Ron Ziegler to serve in the administration of President
Richard Nixon through his resignation in
1974, working on the transition team between Nixon and
Gerald Ford through
1975. In
1978, she became a political correspondent for
CBS, becoming a co-anchor of the
CBS Morning News in
1981. In
1984, she became a correspondent for
60 Minutes, where she stayed for five years. In
1989, she moved to
ABC, co-anchoring
Primetime Live with Sam Donaldson. She currently co-anchors
Primetime Live with
Charles Gibson, and holds many other posts within the ABC News organization.